Crossbows are for the handicapped. Anyone can shoot a crossbow honestly you want a real challenge pick up a recurve or compound bow. for one its alot harder to draw back on an animal than it is to hold a crossbow up. I've seen people that have never shot a gun in there life shoot a crossbow from thirty yards and have arrows touching.I agree with this article honestly crossbow hunters grow a set and step up to the big leages

This debate is one of the many that is dividing sportsmen all over the country, and it's not even necessary. Who cares what weapon is utilized to harvest an animal? Whether you use a crossbow, compound bow, rifle, spear, or knife, the end result is still the same...meat in the freezer. So really...does it matter that much if hunters are using crossbows during archery season? I personally think we should be uniting our efforts and making progressive movements together rather than arguing with each other about the "best way" to kill an animal. Everyone's entitled to their opinion...but there are times when a differences in opinion distract us from the really important issues surrounding hunting and wildlife management...the crossbow issue is one of those distractions.

Here are some issues worth addressing:
-Increasing hunter recruitment by endorsing youth hunts, making hunter safety courses more available, and providing more hunting opportunities for the physically disabled and elderly.
-Increasing hunter access to private property
-Increasing the punishment for poachers, especially repeat offenders
-Increasing the amount of public land available to hunters
-Improve methods for funding "Hunters feeding the hungry" type programs
-Create programs to improve wildlife habitat

Anybody disagree? Can anybody think of other things that can be added to the list?

I'm not real picky about somebody using a crossbow but I will shoot a compound over any crossbow every time. I can't stand the way crossbows shoot. They don's seem to pattern well at all, at least not like a compound bow. I bought a crossbow, used it one season and sold it for a Hoyt compound.

By the way I DO shoot a cross-bow, Long bow, Compound, and recurves ! Love them all for diferent reasons.
Shooting a cross-bow this year just because it's been awhile.
No cross-bows in Colo(was a "bow guide" there by the way).
I "Robin Hooded" two the other day, it only took a week of shooting 2/3 hours a day !
hard is correct, "a bow is a bow". Did you know that cross-bows are what William Tell used to shoot the apple off his sons head ?
True story by the way.
I feel like BioGuy, and Ben Franklin do/did.
"Sir's we MUST hang TOGETHER, or surly we WILL hang seperatly !"

If you like'm, use'm. Where legal, of course.

As a SeAL which do you think would/has more "experience" in the "combat arena" Compounds or cross-bow's.
By that I mean more "practicical appl."
By the by, THANK YOU SIR ! and HOOO YAAA !

I don't see anyhting wrong with using a crossbow during the archery season. It gives more people the ability to go out and enjoy the open air, plus it helps raise the number of people who buy licenses. I personaly don't think there should be any laws or restrictions against using them. It would only be fair to restrict inline muzzleloaders during primative season if you are going to restrict crossbows from archery season.

anything that give more people a chance to hunt and enjoy the outdoors is great for me. I don't use a crossbow in a state that it is legal to use one, and I don't plan on changing. The one problem with a crossbow is that it doesn't have the same kinetic energy of a compound bow at distances longer than 30 yards. Most people who use a compound don't shoot much furthar than 30-35 yards, but people can get a false since of confidence with a crossbow which you could easly shoot accuratly at distances of 60 or 70 yards.